
Are we coming apart at the seams?
The world, we are being told, is coming apart at the seams. Bear in mind that I write this just two days before the USA makes its choice...

Dear Prime Minister - Part 2
What is required is an imaginative, stepped programme of support that helps them back into being productive or as productive as their illnes

"It's down the back on the right..."
I am often struck by how the most simple ideas get thrown out of my mind, well not necessarily thrown out but put in that box labelled...

Dear Prime Minister......
I am writing to you on behalf of two of my clients who because of their medical condition and through very real fear feel that they cannot.

Trauma & Relationships
Mental Health Foundation – Mental Health Awareness Week 2016. Trauma and its effect on relationships Life is what happens when you spend...

Gay Stereotypes and Self esteem
In my work as a psychotherapist it can be difficult to describe what exactly it is that a psychotherapist does. At times I find the...

Unravelling a mess
A friend remarked to me the other day that they were never really prepared for winter. Well, the seasons do change and with that so does...

Goals and how to work with them
It's New Year and all the talk at the moment seems to be around sports. Why this should be I have no idea! I am no real sports fan, but...

Today I outlive my father
This blog was actually written for a podcast that I did for an Internet radio station. I am somewhat surprised that I wrote it back in...

On being diagnosed with cancer
This reflection started as one about engaging with my own mortality and ends up with me wondering if I need to fight not cancer but my...